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39 Seattle U. L. Rev. 927 (2015-2016)
A New Peonage: Pay, Work, or Go to Jail in Contemporary Child Support Enforcement and Beyond

handle is hein.journals/sealr39 and id is 945 raw text is: A New Peonage?: Pay, Work, or Go to Jail in Contemporary Child Support Enforcement and Beyond Noah D. Zatz CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ...................................................928 1. PRESENT DAY INCARCERATION FOR NONWORK . .................930 A. Probation, Parole, and Other Community Supervision ...............930 B. Criminal Justice Debt...................... ........931 C. Child Support Enforcement ..........................933 II. INCARCERATION FOR NONWORK IN THE PAST: LESSONS FROM PEONAGE ....................................................935 A. The Present Involuntariness Principle .............. .....936 B. The Unjustified Quit Principle ................... .....937 C. The Work-Under-Threat Principle .......... .........937 D. The Insufficient Alternative Principle, At Least With Regard to Payment .................................... .....938 III. SEAMEN AND PEONS: THE CONSTITUTIONAL MARGINALIZATION OF ROBERTSON.................................................. 940 A. The Two General Exceptions: Work for the Family or the State . 940 B. Constructing the Seamen Exception .....................942 1. The Public Interest in Orderly Labor........ . ..................942 2. Labor Paternalism.................... ...........944 C. Traditional Servitude.................... ..........947 IV. APPLYING THE THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE NEW PEONAGE ..........948 A. The Peonage Analogy and Limits ofDebt........... .....948 Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. This essay benefitted greatly from feedback provided by participants in this Symposium and from excellent research assis- tance by Julia Solorzano. 927

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